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Jung Yumi

A collection of 4 posts

List (Hong Sangsoo, 2011)

List (Hong Sangsoo, 2011)

With a few days to spare after wrapping the production of In Another Country, Hong Sangsoo and some of his crew and actors hung around and made this short film, which he’d agreed to do as part of the funding for the feature. Being Hong Sangsoo, of course he

Our Sunhi (Hong Sangsoo, 2013)

Our Sunhi (Hong Sangsoo, 2013)

The culmination of the Jung Yumi films, in which a young film student unsuccessfully navigates the attentions of several competing men, none of whom see her for who she actually is, blinded by their perceptions of her prettiness, her innocence, her artistic sense, and so on. This cycle began with

Oki’s Movie (Hong Sangsoo, 2010)

Oki’s Movie (Hong Sangsoo, 2010)

This remains my favorite of Hong Songsoo’s movies, most of which are marked by an unusual structure, in which elements, situations, and/or characters from the first part recur later in the film, in ways that deepen, comment upon or subvert what has gone before. Oki’s Movie is

In Another Country (Hong Sangsoo, 2012)

In Another Country (Hong Sangsoo, 2012)

Hong Sangsoo continues to refine his quirky style, making it funnier, more elegant, and more subtly weird. Like Yasujiro Ozu or Eric Rohmer, Hong seems content to spend years creating endless variations of the same central subjects (in his case vacations, infidelity, drinking, and lazy filmmakers) within the same self-mirroring